Kintsugi

Fotini Masika

Apr 25, 2025

"the honeyed lines / of fragility" got my heart 🖤

Thanks, Fotini. As we are.

"This is for the journey ahead."

Thank you 🙏

And thank you for including "Fragile" and the concept of Wabi-sabi (how I like to live because the alternative is far too painful).

Thanks Rena, it's working title was ‘fragile’ so that could be the delicate fulcrum.

If only we could make those repairs... Beautifully.

I especially love the first hope filled four lines Síodhna, I love the connection with Kintsugi and from there the Japanese art of wab! sabi. Thank you for the gentle reminder that perfect isn't necessarily as it was but as it can be. 🤍x

Maybe it's a courage thing, or a wisdom thing, or even a hindsight and time thing, but where the Universe nudges the Beauty seems to follow...

Beautiful!!

This is so good!!

„let's go back, shall we?

to simpler times—

before cracks

fractured the blend“

Love these lines the most. I really go with the idea of Kintsugi, for me it stands for being broken doesn’t destroy you but can make (parts of) you even more beautiful.

Thank you for sharing!! 🤍

Yes, I believe this too, it's a lived experience, not always plain sailing, but ultimately, it's the path… and the light we use as a guide.

Absolutely true.

A beautiful idea to inspire such interesting writing. I studied Japanese art for a semester in University and I remember being fascinated by this aspect of Japanese pottery. Someone said something about how true progress is usually about how everything that is broken is then mended, how the care you take in repairing is the learning. Something like that. In this way, with that type of pottery the faultlines are the most beautiful part and the bit your eye is focussed on - on what we've learned, how we've repaired our past errors and gotten stronger.

Thanks for this reflective response, David. It's both a lived experience and a noticing. I could probably come back to this again. (Thanks for the share!)

utterly fabulous xx

Thanks so much Una.

Gorgeous - these lines really deeply resonated for me "warriors— talking on moonbeams,

walking on ribbons— of parallel thought" - felt like an echo or memory ❤️

Thanks Orla, lovely to hear this landed with you. Yes to that.

Can we visit the home in the sky?

I think we're all building this same home, Edgar. What a sight it is! What a feeling to visit it almost every day.

It begins to feel more real

Those last two lines of the poem are so moving

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The Sea in Me

Apr 27, 2025Edited

Thanks for making me notice them too, Stephanie.

It is incredible how much a simple word can express. Japanese culture has reminds us of the beauty of/within simplicity, and also of the ephemeral quality of being.

Yes Mahdi, those rich words. That culture, the depth.

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